Charles Peguy
Charles Peguy
Charles Pierre Péguywas a noted French poet, essayist, and editor. His two main philosophies were socialism and nationalism, but by 1908 at the latest, after years of uneasy agnosticism, he had become a believing but non-practicing Roman Catholic. From that time, Catholicism strongly influenced his works...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth7 January 1873
CountryFrance
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When you love someone you love him as he is.
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Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.
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It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.
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There will be things that I do that no one will be left to understand.
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It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.
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We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is officially recorded, confirmed, a single wrong to humanity, a single wrong to justice and to right, particularly if it is universally, legally, nationally, commodiously accepted, that a single crime shatters and is sufficient to shatter the whole social pact, the whole social contract, that a single legal crime, a single dishonorable act will bring about the loss of ones honor, the dishonor of a whole people. It is a touch of gangrene that corrupts the entire body.
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The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.
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Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.
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Suffering passes; having suffered never passes.
The faith that I love the best, says God, is hope.
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One has not the right to betray even a traitor. Traitors must be fought, got betrayed.
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A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.
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A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear.
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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.